Word: beasting
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...splendid conspiracy, two new films insist on being stared at. They can get away with this affront to dullness because they are for kids, whose eyes have not yet been educated to squint, and because they have the cartoonish spirit. Beauty and the Beast, a fairy tale, is Disney's 30th animated feature; The Addams Family, a comic ghost story, is a flip book based on Charles Addams' drawings. Both films are defiantly artificial, with fancy musical numbers and design schemes that carry not only the mood but most of the humor. And both movies have talking furniture...
...Brady Bunch syndrome." Leguizamo acknowledges, however, that his unflinching portrayals of Latin lowlifes, louts and losers can trigger a painful catharsis. "Latin culture is very subliminal. There's still a lot of self-hate. It's underneath this mat and rug hidden in the basement, and it's the beast that wants to come out and chop our heads off. I'm letting out a lot of monsters...
...Gal/Liat Dror and Amiel Malale Dance-part of the Israeli/Jewish-American Dance Festival. "Equus Asinus" explores the historical role of this beast of burden in Israeli society and presents it as a metaphor for the relationships and tensions between Jewish and Arab communities. At the Emerson Majestic Theatre at 219 Tremont St. in Boston. Call 492-7578. Thursday and Friday...
...dominate the beast of the Haitian army for seven months was no small thing for my government. It's like a lion in the circus. The trainer is there in the cage with the lion, and he tries to find every weak spot of the animal in order to maintain his control. But if he fights the lion with force and violence, the tamer will lose, because he does not have the same physical power. Therefore he has to use intelligence. Sometimes, though, the beast strikes at you for no reason...
...name of the tax-exempt beast is ETS, short for Educational Testing Service. ETS is responsible, if that is the word, for administering large gobs of the evil alphabet soup that you must take to get on with your educational career: PSAT, SAT, AP, GMAT, NTE, GRE. Most universities, or at least the ones you'd want to attend, make these tests a prerequisite to applying: no ETS, no education...